From here:
First they dominated the desktop. Now they’re after the afterlife.
Google on Wednesday announced Calico, an ambitious new company that aims to solve some of the biggest problems facing humanity today: illness, aging [sic], diseases and ultimately death.
If it were anyone but Google, the sheer audacity of the goal would be laughable. But coming from the company that redefined the Internet, funds projects to land on and mine the moon, and invented a self-driving car, it’s at least worth listening to.
‘[We invest in] things that are a little more long-term and a little more ambitious than people normally would. More like moon shots.’
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“Last week Apple announced a gold iPhone; what did you do this week, Google? Oh, we founded a company that might one day defeat death itself,” they wrote.
Someone should alert Larry Page to the fact that it’s all been done before.
Jesus conquered death over 2000 years ago.
Yes, Jesus conquered death over 2000 years ago; I bet that He sometimes wonders why he bothered?
“Hey Rocky? How’s business at the main gate? Still backed up with Holy war victims? Remember that time I said, ‘Love each other as I have loved you?’ Did I stutter or something.”
“No, Jesus. And you did not give a list of exceptions either…
It will be an eternal curse if we live forever in the present body – just getting older and older everyday but no physical death at all. Who wants to live forever in the current physical body? The Bible says, “Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment” (Hebrews 9:27). If there is no physical death, does it mean “no final judgment”? If there is no final judgment, why worry about God’s plan of salvation?